by CoastView | Jan 19, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Point Hope is an Iñupiaq whaling community also known as Tikiġaq or Tigara, situated on a barrier spit that extends northwest from Cape Thompson and joins another spit that extends southwest from the Lisburne Peninsula to enclose several lagoons including Marryat...
by CoastView | Jan 18, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Rivers
Valdez is a community situated on the outwash fan of Mineral Creek on the north shore and near the head of Port Valdez in northeastern Prince William Sound, about 82 miles (132 km) east-northeast of Whittier and 46 miles (74 km) north-northwest of Cordova, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 17, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers
Kotzebue is a community situated between Cape Blossom to the south and Pipe Spit to the east near the tip of the Baldwin Peninsula that separates Kotzebue Sound from Hotham Inlet, about 149 miles (240 km) southeast of Point Hope and 73 miles (117 km) west-northwest of...
by CoastView | Jan 16, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Seward is a historic community at the base of Mount Marathon on the western shore of Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula and near the mouth of the Resurrection River, about 80 miles (129 km) west-northwest of Homer and 79 miles (127 km) south of Anchorage, Alaska....
by CoastView | Jan 15, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History
Goddard is a historic settlement situated in Hot Springs Bay on the west coast of Baranof Island, about 92 miles (148 km) west of Petersburg and 15 miles (24 km) south of Sitka, Alaska. Russian fur hunters probably established the site in 1800 during the eastward...
by CoastView | Jan 14, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Washington
Titlow Beach is an urban neighborhood on the eastern shore of the Tacoma Narrows at the site of a historical fish camp used by the Puyallup and Nisqually tribes situated on a tidal wetland now called Titlow Lagoon, about 5.8 miles (9.4 km) south-southeast of Gig...
